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*This is not a history book.

There is history, but it is a picture of two things.

This book as is every book of scripture - is declarative and descriptive of the power of God.

This book is also a picture of our placement in the worlds system in light of the power of God and displayed through the history of God and His people.

This book is also a picture of our placement in the worlds system in light of the power of God and displayed through the history of God and His people.

We are the filth of the world - not the political rulers or power seekers.

By 70 AD all of Jerusalem will be destroyed

We see this folly with the Jews - By 70 AD all of Jerusalem will be destroyed

Government and power will all transfer at that time to Rome.

Government and power will all transfer at that time to Rome.

We don’t run the world system.

Christians don’t look great in the world’s system.

When Christians try to do that it seems as though they depart from the scriptures.

It is God’s soverignty - it is God’s will - it is God, the Lord Jesus Christ - His Word which Christians are concerned with.

We are not here to control governments.

That doesn’t seem to be Pauls focus to “change the course of Roman history”

Paul preached the good news of Jesus Christ and God’s Kingdom

Knowing that we come to Acts 28

From Acts chapter 9 and after the text deals primarily with God’s work through Paul

At this point Paul had been arrested, falsely charged and imprisoned by Rome.

Paul in bondage has reached the city of Rome.

Paul is in bondage but able to live in a house because he is chained to a Roman soldier for 2 years.

Paul then calls the Jewish leaders in Rome to talk to them.

There is already a Christian church in Rome at this time.

Paul is in bondage but able to live in a house because he is chained to a Roman soldier for 2 years.

Paul (the gospel first to the Jew) contacts the Jews first.

Paul then calls the Jewish leaders in Rome to talk to them.

There is already a Christian church in Rome at this time.

There are 7 majior synogoges in Rome at this time.

Paul (the gospel first to the Jew) contacts the Jews first.

There are 7 majior synogoges in Rome at this time.

It is entirley possible that Paul had 15-40 people come representing the Jews.

It is entirley possible that Paul had 15-40 people come representing the Jews.

They then have discussion with Paul and at the close of verse 23-24, we see that some of them believed and some did not.

They then have discussion with Paul and at the close of verse 23-24, we see that some of them believed and some did not.

This leads me to the teaching of Christ in: where He explains that the sheep, His sheep, hear my voice and know my voice and follow)

From refer to (the sheep hear my voice and know my voice and follow)

Those who were appointed to eternal life believed and those who were not, did not.

Those who hear the voice of Christ, hear His voice when the Holy Spirit touches them - though they are always his sheep (ex.

Saul w/Stephen vs when he became Paul)

Those who were appointed to eternal life believed and those who were not, did not.

Those who hear the voice of Christ, hear His voice when the Holy Spirit touches them - though they are always his sheep (ex.

Saul w/Stephen vs when he became Paul)

You al sang the song this morning which states: “My erring child, He reconciled”

“My erring child, He reconciled”

God’s child is God’s child before being reconciled.

This doesn’t mean that one isn’t separated, but just the opposite: that being separated God reconciled you dear child of God.

It’s not that you become a child once you are reconciled, but that you are reconciled because you are a child.

It is God’s soverignty working together through the obedient and disobedient to bring about the accomplishing of His glorious will:

God’s child before reconciled.

It’s not that you become a child once you are reconciled, but that you are reconciled because you are a child.

Friends this glorious gospel message has long brought debate amongst even the Bible literate:

Acts 28:25-

They are not in agreement with each other about what Paul is saying.

Paul is preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus.

In the midst of this dispute, Paul gives one final parting word and that word is not his own, but it is the Word of scripture, from Isaiah, spoken by the Holy Spirit:

Acts 28:25-278

Now, let us note what we don’t know so that we don’t assume anything upon the text:

We don’t know from this text if these people go to hell or if God just blinded them for a time so that the gospel could go to the Gentiles.

We don’t know what God does: lest He tells us.

We don’t know what God does: lest He tells us.

We know that He is telling us what He is doing with a people at this present time and thus what He is doing at this present time with the message of “The Kingdom of God” and the teaching of Jesus Christ.

God is sovereign and we are learning what or how He is sovereignly moving.

So many popular questions come about as we attempt to understand God’s sovereign rule.

So many popular questions come about as we attempt to understand God’s soverign rule.

EX:“If God is sovereign and rules over our lives then why are there commandments?”

“If God is sovereign and rules over our lives then why are there commandments?”

He gives them not in giving up His sovereignty but so that we know what His will is.

He gives them not in giving up His sovereignty but so that we know what HIs will is.

I don’t believe that we can even conceive what perfection is or that of perfection of will or absolute sovierinty or perfect justice.

We don’t even know what it is to have a good law abiding community other than that of what God has revealed to us and we even rebel against that.

But by the grace of God, by the power of God we can know that the will of God (not the choice, righteousness or works of man) is perfect (beyond us)

I don’t believe that we can even conceive what perfection is or that of perfection of will or absolute sovierinty or perfect justice.

We don’t even know what it is to have a good law abiding community other than that of what God has revealed to us and we even rebel against that.

That perfect will is able to be seen/approved (dokimazo - verb - present active infinitive) by the work of God within us, by the correcting of our minds towards God.

You are presently made able to participate in it and this is by the will of God.

So I don’t know all, but I do know that God is soverign and He is perfectly soverign and His will is right, His ways are just and He is love.

And it is an amazing thing to me that by the transforming work of God through the renewing of our mind we are able to participate in the present active revelation of His good and perfect will in our lives.

So I don’t know.

But I do know that God is soverign and He is perfectly soverign and His will is right, His ways are just and He is love.

This good and perfect will has to do essentially with “The Kingdom of God” & the teachings of Jesus.

This good and perfect will of God is being explained to the Jewish leaders in Rome - In its final words it is being spoken through the Holy Spirits words spoken to the Prophet Isaiah.

These words - the quote is from Isaiah in the year that King Uzziah died: again, not Pauls words but rather, the words of scripture, spoken to them (the Jewish leaders) about what God is doing in them at this present moment as it relates to His Kingdom & Jesus the Christ.

In conclusion Paul says:

In the book of Judges -

Samson knew that he was not to marry outside of the tribe

God gave the commandment (why?) so that Samson might know that.

Samson did it anyways

Now, it was obviously God’s design that he marry outside the tribe

“Samson’s parents did not know that it was of the Lord”

Samson is disobeying the law.

Is Samson disobeying the law because he wants to or is he saying I don’t want to do this.

Samsons judgment is based on HIs attitude not what he did.

The quote is from Isaih, in the year that King Uzziah died.

This is what Paul said to them.

There is not one who did not know this scripture.

So these are not Pauls words, but the words of scripture.

Known to you - it is made known what God is doing.

salvation - not redemption.